From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:09:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83zh0y2jtu.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtwx2gnx.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29306"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, eliz@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 07:12:34 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l4Hac-0007WX-7B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:12:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59818 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4Hab-0004oR-85 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:12:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4HXw-0002VJ-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:09:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40836) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4HXv-0004Q6-Id; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:09:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l4HXs-0001tG-7R; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:09:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Ulrich Mueller on Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:10:21 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:263443 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Of the files included with Emacs, maybe the the Unicode data files are > the ones that resemble the purpose of the schemas most closely. As they > are also part of a standard, modifying them (e.g., put "A" at a position > other than 0x41) wouldn't make much sense either. > Nevertheless, they are distributed under a license [1] that allows > "to deal in the Data Files or Software without restriction, including > without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, > distribute, and/or sell copies". This is something we could usefully cite if we approach OASIS to ask to put these schemas under a free license. It provides precedent. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)